Pro Tools 9 will not allow mp3 export

[aljdbright]

I have Pro Tools 9 installed on my mac running snow leopard 10.6.7. It will not let me export a bounce in mp3 format. It says, "the mp3 option cannot be enabled because:Module initialization failed for mp3.bundle. The mp3 demo period may have expired." This is rather odd seeing as I understood the PT9 included mp3 export and it was not an option. Can someone help me to figure this out?

Thanks
Aaron

[Avid]

Have you tried updating to Pro Tools 9.0.2?
www.avid.com/protoolsupdates

[aljdbright]

I'll give it a shot and post back. Thanks.

[bradch00]

Did you install (re-iinstall) the Music Production Toolkit when you installed PT9?

[aljdbright]

OK, so when I bought a mac, I installed PT9 without having a previous installation of PT8. I guess it all worked fine because I was able to get the ilok authorization license on a different computer that had PT8 on it already. Confused?? :) So until I needed to export by way of Mp3, I was having no issues with PT9 on my mac. But, since I was having an issue with the mp3 export and I also could not update the software to 9.0.2 update, I figured I needed to get things running right and to be able to use all the functions I paid for. So I did a clean uninstall of PT9, installed my old PT8, then reinstalled PT9. All went smooth. I then was able to update to 9.0.2. After the update, I also could export in mp3. So that was good.

Right now though, my mp3 bounces come out in left and right bounces instead of one bounce. I tried the interleave bounce but that just froze my mac and gave me the spinning pinwheel of death. But I think I can figure that out soon enough.

A

[spearson8]

I am unable to bounce to MP3 as well.

I've been running PT9.2 for weeks and all of a sudden my ability to bounce to MP3 has ceased.

I recently updated my Music Production toolkit and I noticed on the download page it says to 'UNCHECK THE MP3 OPTION'. Well, I've tried it both ways and my system crashes ONLY when I attempt an MP3 bounce.

Something is wrong with the codec here. I'm not sure what to troubleshoot next? I paid for this feature long before it came included with PT9 so I'm certain my license for the MP3 option is legit in iLok land.

Thoughts?

Here's a mini error log snippet I receive after the track plays through in its entirety, then, right before bouncing calculates I get...


Process: Pro Tools [270]
Path: /Applications/Digidesign/Pro Tools/Pro Tools.app/Contents/MacOS/Pro Tools
Identifier: com.digidesign.ProTools
Version: 9.0.2 (9.0.2f74)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [178]

Date/Time: 2011-04-17 12:40:23.669 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567)
Report Version: 6

[qwertyuiop]

Same thing here.. running pro tools 9.0.2 on a brand new mac pro - running 10.6.7.. exporting a mix as an mp3 crashes pro tools... is this a bug? any ideas as to why?

[SpinningDisk]

Just curious. why did you find the need to reinstall PT 8? Uninstall PT8 and install 9.0. A lot of people have been having trouble with 10.6.7. I stopped at 10.6.2 and 9.0 until they figure it all out.

[punchiest]

Having the same problem here.......bbbooooooooooooo

[James Crawford]

Having the same problems with mine. Protools 9 will alow me to import mp3's but not export or bounce to mp3's. Whats the solution?